The Aesop for Children, The Heron, sentence 2
The clear water swarmed with fish, but Master Heron was hard to please that morning.
Who acts: clear water · What happens: swarm, be, please · To what, where: clear water
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Heron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clear water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 2 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 water | amod |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hard | nsubj |
| 4 | swarmed | swarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 water | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 fish | case |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swarmed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hard | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 hard | cc |
| 9 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Heron | compound |
| 10 | Heron | Heron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 hard | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hard | cop |
| 12 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 please | mark |
| 14 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hard | csubj |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 morning | det |
| 16 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 please | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swarm | participle | the clear water not said here | with fish | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fish=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the clear water | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | please | to-infinitive | morning | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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